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ORBITAL LABORATORY PAYLOAD 003
Orbital Laboratory Defined:
The Orbital Laboratory is a life and space science program that involves your students in the same kind of plant research currently being done at NASA. The future of human space travel will require that astronauts produce some of the food they need to stay alive on long missions or journeys to other planets. Payload 003: Cultivating Our Future looks at wheat and soybean crops as potential food crops in space.Orbital Laboratory Educational Focus:
Orbital Laboratory Payload 003 is a cost-benefit analysis of these wheat and soybean plants as space crops. Students will study plant growth and development, health and nutrition, and the applications of space research on Earth. Classrooms will grow wheat and soybean seeds that have been genetically selected for optimal growth in a space environment. Specifically, students will experiment with different growth media, nutrient delivery systems, and light exposure times.Program Features:
Classroom kit with materials needed to conduct the plant growth experiment
Privileged access to ISS Experiment Images, Information, and Program Scientists
21 Full Lesson Plans exploring plants in space, health and nutrition, and space basics
Use a NASA Developed “Space Soil” and growing techniques
Collaborative data sharing with other classrooms through the online data notebook
Interactive Online Chats featuring space science experts and scientists
Pre and Post Test
Teacher and Student Messageboards for program information exchange
Press Opportunities for your school
Telephone, e-mail, and online customer support
Space Explorer's Portal
The Space Explorers Portal is designed to integrate technology into everyday classroom studies, providing students the opportunity to learn science and computer technology simultaneously. The Space Explorers Portal also gives all of your school’s teachers the ability to learn this new technology at the same time, providing them with a resource to learn new Internet and computer skills to aid in their professional development as 21st century educators.
The Space Explorers Portal includes all three Space Explorers Programs and additional modules on rocketry, plate tectonics, and other exciting topics. The Space Explorers Portal also includes access to the whole Space Explorers community including online events with real NASA scientists and educators, online and telephone support, grant and sponsorship opportunities, press opportunities for your school, and much more. Add this to the wealth of curriculum, activities, simulated NASA missions, pre and post testing, real NASA data from NASA missions and the International Space Station, student tutorials, and educational games, and you have a school package that is hard to beat. Our team of educators with real classroom experience designed Space Explorers’ lessons and curricula to be standards based and easily included into almost any teacher’s lesson plans.
The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium's electronic newsletter
The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium's electronic newsletter for teachers (K-12) provides curriculum ideas, links and other resources to help you better meet the Washington EALRs and the National Science Education Standards.
To subscribe to the mailing list, go to mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/sgteachers and fill out the form.
TRise to the challenges of space exploration!
Use current NASA missions to introduce students to the Solar System. Students are able to take an active role in the exploration of the Moon, Mars and asteroids through actual NASA missions. Includes curriculum, Internet mission simulation and access to actual NASA data. Mission: Solar System is a subscription service designed to stimulate your 5-12th grade students' interest in space and science. The Mission: Solar System Subscription includes: Curriculum modules that use the latest scientific discoveries to introduce
the Solar System.Modules include:
The Solar System, Mars, Comets and Asteroids, and The Science of Exploration.
Access to actual NASA data from the Moon, Mars and the asteroid Eros.
Online chats, message boards, and events.
One free simulation of a NASA mission.
Dropping in a Microgravity Environment
NASA Glenn Research Center sponsors this annual high-school-aged student competition for proposing, designing, building and operating a microgravity drop tower science experiment. Selected teams win a trip to NASA Glenn to operate their experiment and participate in workshops.
Proposals are due in early November each year and teams from the fifty United States, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico are eligible to participate. See the DIME web site for contest rules and other information. Request a CD-ROM with contest rules and other educator resources by sending e-mail request to: dime@grc.nasa.gov
NASA is offering an online lecture series which can be taken for credit (juniors and seniors). NASA has 60 scholarships available on a first come first served basis. With the scholarship the cost to the student is only $20.
Check out this great opportunity at http://robotics.nasa.gov and then follow the links to the course. This just went up on their website yesterday so there is a good chance for folks to get in if they act quickly.
THE SPACE EDUCATORS' HANDBOOK
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At the site are HTML files of NASA space education resources. Among them are SPACE MOVIES, SCIENCE FICTION as a SPACE TECHNOLOGY TEACHING TOOL, a SPACE CALENDAR, SPACE COMICS and other educational resources dealing with space exploration and science. The site includes downloadable software.
DDL Software
The DDL has produced a number of multimedia CD-ROMs for various projects and educational programs.
Astronomy Village
Investigating the Universe is a CD-ROM based multimedia program that provides teachers and students with ten complete investigations in astronomy intended to complement and extend the science curriculum in 9th and 10th grade classes.
Jackson & Tull Software
Many different Space Science and Earth Science software packages, including Exploring the Earth, Exploring the Solar System, and Hubble Movies
Alaska Science
Within this site you'll be able to learn how to build your very own rocket, discover the mystery of the Aurora Borealis, enjoy some lectures, learn about remote mapping and enjoy an over abundace of scientific links.
Online from Jupiter
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Classrooms connect with the Galileo team.
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Astrobiology is concerned with the origin, deveopment, distribution, and future form of life in the universe.
Basic of Space Flight
Jet Propulsion laboratory tutorial on space flight!
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This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
Rockets for Schools
Life Sciences, Johnson Space Center
Poker Flat Research Range
Nasa Science Mission Directive
